Unwrapping 3D Sphere onto 2D plane

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Hello,

I would like to unwrap an ordinary Blender Sphere onto a 2D plane so that the end-result looks similar to that of a world map when being unwrapped onto a 2D plane. In other words, I want a 3D sphere as a flat representation looking like a sequence of upward and downward directed triangles connected by a common center line (which is the circumference), where each triangle is subdivided by the faces of the original mesh. I hope you know what I mean with that. It is kind of hard to explain. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

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Here you go…

Blend files with various aspect ratios provided as well.
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=180470&highlight=

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Hey thanks,

there I found what I was looking for. It was the Unfold Script function of Blender that I wasn’t aware of. After searching the forum again for “Unfold” I came across the tutorial “Creating Paper Models” which explains it perfectly and is all I need.

Thanks again